POLISH TECH DAY

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ABOUT

Polish Tech Day in London is one of the most prestigious events about Polish new technologies outside of Poland. As a part of the London Tech Week its main goal is to foster bilateral relations between the Polish and British technology sectors and create an opportunity for quality business and technology networking.

Speakers

Arkady Józef Rzegocki

The Polish Ambassador to the United KingdomArkady Józef Rzegocki, PhD is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to the Court of St. James's.

Ambassador Rzegocki is a political scientist, professor of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, specialising in Polish and English political thought, the concept of national interest (raison d'État), as well as the issue of soft power. He studied at the Jagiellonian University and University College Dublin, conducted research in Denver (Colorado, USA), at universities in Oxford, Cambridge, London, and Florence, and was a Visiting Scholar at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 2014.

From 1996 to 2010 he was an Associate Professor in the Department of History of Political and Legal Doctrines of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University. Since 2010 he has been a Professor at the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the Jagiellonian University.

For many years he has been actively promoting knowledge of Poland in the United Kingdom. From 2011 to 2016 he was a Professor of the Polish University Abroad in London (PUNO). He has been the initiator and the first director of the Jagiellonian University Polish Research Centre in London that has been operating since 2011. From 2011 to 2015 he was the leader of the postgraduate course “Polish-British Strategic Partnership in the EU and NATO” organised jointly by PUNO and the Jagiellonian University. He was a councillor for the City of Krakow from 2014 to 2016 where he headed the Commission of Innovation and European Funds of the City Council.

He was a member of academic and civic organisations: EpsNet, Polish Association of Political Science, Polish Association of Political Thought, The Jagiellonian Club, The Center for Political Thought. Since 2009 he has been a member of the Historical Preservation Committee in Krakow (SKOZK). He is the founder of “Pressje” journal and he was its editor-in-chief from 2002 to 2011.

Paul Clark

CTO at Tandem BankPaul has worked in digital on the internet since the first bubble back in 1999. After the bubble burst in 2001 Paul went through a number of national broadcasters building video on demand platforms, starting with Channel 4, then the BBC and finally as Digital CTO at ITV. After recognising that financial services would be the next industry disrupted by digital Paul joined HSBC Bank as their Global Head of Engineering for Digital. Realising that HSBC would never achieve the pace of change required to be at the front of the digital disruption curve Paul left to join Tandem Bank, a digital only challenger where he’s currently the CTO.

Ajay Chowdhury

Partner and Managing Director at BCG Digital VenturesAjay Chowdhury is Partner and Managing Director at BCG Digital Ventures. Prior to joining BCG he was CEO of Seatwave, a European online ticketing marketplace that was sold to Ticketmaster. Earlier, he was CEO of ComQi, a global omni-channel retail technology company and also co-founded IDG Ventures Europe (IDGVE), a $100m European venture capital fund. Whilst at IDGVE he was the founder investor and Chairman of Shazam, a $1bn mobile audio recognition company and also invested in and served on the board of Lionhead, a games developer, later sold to Microsoft.

Prior to IDGVE he was CEO of LineOne - a joint venture between United News and Media (UNM) and British Telecom, which he helped grow into one of the UK’s largest portals and ISP’s. At UNM he was founder and Managing Director of its internet division. Prior to UNM he was a manager at Bain & Company. Ajay has an MBA from Wharton and studied drama at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Kerry Hallard

President, Global Sourcing Association & CEO, Global Sourcing Association UKKerry Hallard is leading the NOA to grow the reach and the reputation of the outsourcing industry globally. Professionalising the outsourcing industry through standards and qualifications is core to the NOA's work today.

Kerry took on the role of CEO of the NOA in 2013 and in this time has developed and rolled out a corporate accreditation programme that accredits the buyers of outsourcing to industry best practice. A portfolio of qualifications for outsourcing professionals has been developed - ranging from Capita rolling out NOA qualifications across their employee base through to developing the industry first qualifications in robotic process automation. The NOA sits on the development boards of the latest ISO standards in outsourcing and lobbies European Government on legislative issues that impact the outsourcing industry.

Prior to joining the NOA full time, Kerry was Managing Director of Buffalo Communications, the communications consultancy which the NOA had outsourced its marketing, membership services and Secretariat to and was publisher of sourcingfocus.com and the Outsourcing Yearbook. During her 20 years in communications Kerry served as a strategic communications consultant for companies to include: ICL; Lexmark; IBM; KPN Qwest; Avaya; Crystal Decisions and Cincom.

Radosław Zaleski

Head of Growth, NetguruRadek specialises in making things work regardless of circumstances and without excuses. He’s responsible for the continuous growth of Netguru and the coordination of all marketing and recruitment processes. He does so with ruthless dedication, but always keeps an honest smile on his face and has a kind word to offer to his team. Radek previously worked for international businesses in the media and game industries. He has more than 10 years of experience in marketing and PR, which often comes in handy. He’s also a The Next Web contributor and the founder of London Brief. In his free time, Radek enjoys his fatherly duties, follows the goings-on of NBA and plays games.

Wojciech Chmielewski

Managing Partner at mAcceleratorWojciech Chmielewski is a Managing Partner at mAccelerator, a stage agnostic fund that engages in investments in startups with solutions applicable to the banking and financial sector

Previous to mA, Wojciech held various management positions at mBank (Poland’s 4th largest bank) with responsibilities for Group Strategy, Group Corporate Development, Supervision of Group Subsidiaries and Investor Relations having joined the bank in 2011.

Before joining mBank, Wojciech worked in the Investment Banking Division of J. P. Morgan in London, responsible for financial services clients primarily in the CEEMEA region with focus on M&A advisory and capital markets transactions.

Wojciech is a graduate of Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris (currently ESCP
Europe). His personal interests include travel and ancient history.

Julia Krysztofiak-Szopa

CEO of Startup PolandJulia has been working with startups since 2008, in Poland, Silicon Valley, and Switzerland. She was the first Program Director at Blackbox.vc, a Palo Alto based startup accelerator. She’s also a co-founder of Wellfitting, a Polish lingerie brand. She studied philosophy at Warsaw University and Artificial Intelligence at Catholic University of Leuven.

Marzena Bielecka

Managing Partner, Founder at Experior Venture FundMarzena is a Managing Partner and Founder of Experior Venture Fund, responsible for Fund’s operations, including deal sourcing, supervision of investment process, fund raising for portfolio companies, supervision of exits from investments as well as for relations with the Fund’s private investors and KFK. Marzena has a key role in value creation and supervision of EVF portfolio companies, including chairing of Supervisory Boards of Algolytics, Tourmedica, WeGirls, and DrOmnibus. Marzena has also led the successful exit from EVF portfolio company - ZenCard to PKO BP.
Marzena has spent almost 20 years managing investment banking operations of several international institutions in Poland, including Raiffeisen Investment Polska, West LB Panmure, HSBC Financial Services. She has extensive experience in managing companies as well as in investment supervision, including as Chairman of the Supervisory Board (BPH TFI SA (2015 - present), Celtic Property Developments SA, Polski Gaz SA and other) and as Member of the Supervisory Board (Polbank EFG SA, Ferrum SA, MZCh Organika SA, Unimil SA. and other). She is an expert in the areas of capital markets, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring.
Marzena is active in supporting women led companies – she is a mentor in Foundation for Women Entrepreneurship.

Robert Biedroń

Mayor of the City of SłupskHe is a graduate of both the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, and of the School for Political and Social Leaders. He has also taken a course in the School of Human Rights organized by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. For many years he has been a consultant for numerous Human Rights organizations, both in Poland and abroad. He is also a co-founder and a long-standing president of the Campaign Against Homophobia.

Since 2009, he has acted as the president of the Podkarpacki Institute, which is an organisation focused on the development of civil society. On October 9, 2011, he was elected as a Member of Parliament. He was a vice chairperson of the Justice and Human Rights Committee and a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Former member of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe and General Rapporteur on LGBT people of the Assembly. In the years 2008-2016 he was a member of the Human Rights Advisory Board by the Open Society Foundations.

Since 2016, he has also been a member of the Advisory Group on Gender, Forced Displacement and Protection launched by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . He has been the Mayor of the City of Słupsk since 2014. Since 2015 member of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Council of Europe.

Michał Kramarz

Head of Startups SEED (Export & Entrepreneurs Development), Google PolandIn the Internet industry for over 13 years. In Google since the beginning of its presence in Poland, that is from 2006. Since 2015 responsible for helping Polish companies & startups in global expansion. Earlier for over 8 years responsible for digital development of key businesses in retail, e-commerce, finance & travel industries. Graduate of the International Faculty of Engineering from Technical University of Lodz and Executive MBA from Towson University/University of Maryland.

Dagmara Lacka

Co-founder & CEO of BOLDMINDDagmara passionately exploits new technologies to increase sales and drive growth. In a decade of work across online and offline media in UK and overseas markets, Dagmara has gained extensive expertise in digital brand strategy, product positioning and delivery. She built and delivered digital strategies for start-ups and blue-chip companies with emphasis on running internal and external innovation teams.
At Boldmind she oversees development of AI-based solutions for Smart Cities, with emphasis on retail environment.
The flagship product Flow.City - the first surge marketing platform, has last year earned recognition as Bloomberg Innovator 2016. The platform currently accesses 53% of all screens in around London, including shopping malls, airports and office buildings. Boldmind's live footfall engine is used in flow.city to intelligently distribute content and can be viewed in real-time on the flow.city website.

Bartosz Jędrychowski

Co-Founder - gamekit.com, dogry.pl Despite the young age, Bartek is working on startups since 2004. He co-founded 3 websites - gryonline.org, sendspace.pl and boja.pl, which has been successfully sold.

Since 2013 Bartek is managing Gamekit, an innovative platform for gaming ecosystem which allows players to earn gaming gift cards and discounts by playing games and completing different quests. With 12 million registered users Gamekit is the biggest global rewards platform for gamers.

Graduate of Warsaw School of Economics and Krakow University of Economics. Passionate about sports (kitesurfing, tennis, football) and his newborn daughter Zuzanna.

Emily Carlisle

Partner at Baker & McKenzieEmily Carlisle is a member of the London office's Corporate Department. She advises clients on a wide range of corporate matters with a focus on reorganising the corporate group structures of multinational companies. Emily joined Baker McKenzie in 2000 and was seconded to the Firm's New York office in 2006. She was admitted to the Law Society of England and Wales in September 2002.

Emily helps clients — mostly multinational companies — structure, implement and manage cross-border reorganizations efficiently while ensuring compliance with local and international legal requirements. She is part of a dedicated team in London focused on international reorganizations and business transformation projects.

Mateusz Stawarz

Expansion Strategy & Investor Relations at BillonMatt is fundraising and expansion manager at Billon Group and their first UK-resident hire. He was initially an angel investor in Billon but joined full time in 2016 as the company expanded internationally. Previously, Matt was a long-short equities investor at Citadel – a top global hedge fund – where he specialised in diversified financials, including fintech. Whilst at Citadel Matt first encountered blockchain technology, it’s potential to disrupt, and the concern and excitement with which many CEOs viewed it. Ever since, he has been a keen advocate and participant in the nascent industry. Matt began his career as an M&A investment banker at Goldman Sachs in the Financial Institutions sector team and he has a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge.

Justin Hannemann

Head of New Product and Service Design at Santander UKAt Santander I lead the proposition design and delivery for next generation products and services from the Customer’s standpoint. I do this by applying agile, lean, customer led thinking to building teams and processes, leaving threats and challenges behind the wake of new growth and loyalty.

Marian Gazdik

MD Europe at Startup GrindFounder of BrainTrust, a think-tank helping top tech CEOs scale globally. Advisory board member at T-Mobile Czech Republic and Telekom Slovakia, mentor at Virgin Startup. Founder of Bhere.TV, a platform that brings business leaders live online. Ex-Orange, ex-Reebok. Marian was featured in New Europe 100 (organised by Financial Times, Google, Respublica and Visegrad Fund), the list of outstanding challengers who are leading world class innovation from Central and Eastern Europe.

Marta Krupińska

GM & Co-Founder at AzimoMarta is the Co-Founder and General Manager of London and Krakow-based Azimo, one of the fastest growing companies in the global FinTech space.
Marta is also a frequent public speaker, championing migrants and women in technology and training on the world changing reality of remittances.
For her work at Azimo, disrupting the $690 billion remittance industry to democratize access to financial services globally, she has received multiple awards including Forbes 30 Under 30 in Finance in 2016. Marta holds a master’s degree in psychology from Jagiellonian University and received executive education at Columbia Business School.

David Poole

Co-founder and CEO, Symphony VenturesDavid is an industry visionary with over 20 years as a corporate executive, running multi-billion dollar outsourcing and services firms. He has grown global businesses, built industry leading sales and operations teams, and spearheaded innovation across the industry in areas including platform-based BPO, supply chain BPO, cloud-based services, and user experience. David’s priorities at Symphony are to develop a world-class team and to work closely with client leadership to help them leverage Symphony’s Digital Ecosystem of automation partners and other inspired delivery models to compete in a digital world.

Artur Martyniuk

Director, Corporate Finance, M&A, DeloitteArtur Martyniuk has over fifteen years of experience in strategic operational and financial advisory services, covering M&A, pre-deal valuation, sale of performing and non-performing asset portfolios, coordination of due diligence processes. Artur carried out major deals of top financial institutions in Poland and Europe. Before joining Deloitte, he worked in Geneva, London and Madrid for companies such as: Banco Santander, Goldman Sachs and KPMG. Artur holds a diploma of Master of Business Administration IESE Business School in Barcelona, Masterclass in Private Equity & Venture Capital Harvard Business School in the U.S. and London Business School in the U.K.

Michał Kulka

Partner at Lawmore, startups coach and advisorThe owner of the group of companies comprehensively advising startups and investors (lawmore,gakko fund,bookkeepers).He specializes in providing advice in terms of financing strategy,financial models and structure of investment.He introduced international companies to the polish market (sportingbet.pl)and was the manager of Noble concierge company.

Grant Blaisdell

Co Founder & CMO of CoinfirmA creator, Grant has been developing models and ventures around tech, content and branding since his teens. Through his own projects and collaboration with influential entities, Grant has been engrained within startup environments and is seen as a unique visionary and innovator in the applications of tech and media across cultural elements in both Europe and the US.

Marcin Ociepa

Chairman of Opole City CouncilFrom 2014 Chairman of Opole City Council. In 2010-2014 Deputy Chairman of Opole City Council. Alternate member of the European Committee of the Regions. Political scientist-european affairs, Opole University academic teacher. President of the think tank and school of leadership - Collegium Nobilium Opoliense (collegium.opole.pl). NGO`s manager: founder of the Collegium Nobilium Opoliense Foundation, President of Association of the Active People „Horyzonty” and „Together for Opole” Association.

Paweł Tomczuk

Co-founder & Executive Chairman, rAcceleratorPawel founded the largest CEE strategic communication firm, advising owners, C-suite executives and PE/VC investors in strategic communications. Following a successful exit to Publicis Groupe he has designed and developed a global corporate innovation program for one of Europe’s largest insurance firms. He has also advised several VCs during fundraising periods, and invested in 8 companies as a business angel across fintech, digital media and big data space.

He currently has 5 advisory and non executive boards roles where he supports founders of growing businesses in the tech space (tech companies and professional services firms). He is also a Tech London Advocate, mentor at leading accelerators Techstars and Startupbootcamp and co-director of Startup Grind London.

Krzysztof Janusz

General Manager Poland at intiveKrzysztof Janusz is an experienced IT professional with a proven track record in general management, consultative sales, managing IT&Telecom projects, running programs and portfolios as well as setting up IT organizations.

He has started his professional career with Nokia in Wroclaw, then continued at IBM, where he was one of the first employees on board. Lately he has been working for a global Lottery & Gaming leader IGT and currently he is working for intive, Premium Software Development House with over 1300 employees. At intive Krzysztof works as a General Manager responsible for the Polish and UK market development and operation.

Privately he is married and a happy father of two daughters, 3 and 5 years old. In his free time Krzysztof enjoys running, good book and spending time with his family.

Magdalena Beauchamp

Director of Advocacy and Operations at Startup PolandMagdalena Beauchamp is Director of Advocacy and Operations at Startup Poland. She gained her economic policy experience at the Trade Department of the Royal Danish Embassy in Warsaw and at the European Commission’s Taxation and Customs Union DG (TAXUD). She studied the European Single Market at the College of Europe as well as International Relations and Economics at Tischner European University and at the University of Fribourg.

Filip Jakubowski-Drzewiecki

CTO of Loot.io BankFilip is the CTO of Loot.io, a UK mobile banking solution focused on needs of millennials. He has over 13 years of experience as a managing projects and Development teams. His expertise stretches from software architecture, security and scalability in the cloud, digital money and is particularly interested in trends around AI, Product Development, Mastering the User Journey and Building Company Culture. In his free time he mentors startups in Startup Bootcamp Fintech, Insuretech and Google Launchpad.

Andrew Hope

Management Board VP/Co-Founder, SalesbookAndy oversees, among other things, the international expansion of Salesbook. Salesbook is a ground breaking end-to-end Mobile Sales Force Enablement Platform for client facing consultative sales. Clients include leading global insurers, banks, mutual funds and automakers, such as Mercedes, BMW and Prudential.

Andy has been a Founder/ CFO at several early stage companies. He has 20 years’ experience in CEE capital markets & finance.

He was the CEE Treasurer at large Oil &Gas U.S. company anInvestment banker, PE/VC fund partner, Brokerage board member. His investment experience includes sourcing, structuring and negotiating a variety of M&A, investment banking and Venture Capital/Private Equity investments.

Communications and public affairs are also areas of particular skill gained early in his career working in Washington D.C. for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Bill Clinton Presidential Campaign, for U.S. Senator Tom Harkin and as a journalist for The Economist, Wall Street Journal Europe/Dow Jones in CEE.

An entrepreneur at heart, he is particularly fond of creating Warsaw’s 1st craft brewery, which among many awards was voted Best Beer in Poland at the time.
A native of New York City and Connecticut, Mr. Hope holds a B.A. from Connecticut College, one of the prestigious ‘Little Ivies’, an MBA from the Warsaw School of Economics and the University of Quebec in Montreal [CEMBA]. He also attended the American University and is a graduate of the highly-regarded Fairfield College Preparatory School.

Simon Spier

Head of International Trade at techUKSimon is Head of International Trade at techUK engaging with government and business to support tech companies’ growth internationally and enhance international engagement with the UK's burgeoning tech industry.

Before joining techUK, Simon was Senior Advisor for Trade and Economic Affairs at the Embassy of Israel, London. His experience includes consulting with leading business in Israel and the UK and with all levels of the public sector. Simon worked extensively with the UK government on the creation of policy that facilitated international trade.

Simon holds a BA in International Studies with Political Science from the University of Birmingham and an MBA from the University of Oxford.

Emilian Siemsia

CTO at FriendlyScoreEmilian is dynamic and driven technologist with rare combination of business and deep technical knowledge.

He is start-up passionate, agile evangelist, team builder currently founding lead engineer of FriendlyScore.com (Startupbootcamp Fintech 2014 Alumni) where he has put a deep knowledge of creating a platform which combine Machine Learning technics, Web Application development and Mobile solutions.

For over 10 years he has held many software developer and technical leader roles.
He is a programmer specializing in PHP (Symfony framework), Python, Java and Scala.

Jakub Molski

Senior Vice President Investments and Strategic Development at Tuxedo MoneyJakub is Senior Vice President Investments and Strategic Development at Tuxedo Money, acting for the owner Aldridge EDC, an investment fund in financial assets and technologies. Prior to this he spent his career in distressed assets at Hoist Kredit, a leading fund investing in consumer non-performing loans, and RBS in corporate restructuring. After his Master in Management at ESCP-EAP he worked at Rocket Internet in Berlin, an early stage startup incubator.

Sara Koślińska

CEO of LimitlessSara Koslinska is the CEO of Limitless, a fintech startup providing a microinvestment app to financial institutions willing to engage Millennials.

Previously she worked either for startups - including Rocket Internet's Foodpanda in Singapore and an Israeli online platform - or was running her own B2B ventures. Sara gained experience in Europe, Middle East and Asia, getting to know each aspect of a startup ecosystem, including setting up an NGO Startup Poland and running a corporate acceleration program for Malaysian Investment Arm.

Sara has been passionate about Fintech and BigData since 2013. She's also an advocate for building diversified teams and supporting women who want to work in the technology sector.

Anna Bogusz

Corporate Business Development Manager at Zortrax S.A.Currently managing extensive global projects connected to expanding the business among corporate clients.

From the beginning of her professional career, Anna has been connected to building international business relations and trade expansion. Prior to Zortrax she coordinated sales development in manufacturing companies connected to wood and metal processing. 3D printing was a dynamic turning point and she decided to develop her career in new technologies.

In her free time Anna plays sports, especially volleyball and Ultimate Frisbee. When she is not at work she is co-organising tournaments for UF teams from all over Europe.